{"id":1284,"date":"2008-02-14T13:22:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/02\/14\/1284\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T21:46:18","slug":"tidying-up-myspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/02\/14\/1284\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidying up MySpace (and Friendster)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Friendster Testimonial from 2003 predicting this event (sorta)<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So I met someone a few weeks back and I was looking at her MySpace page’s comments section. I instantly learned quite a bit more information that I really cared to learn about that person. Upon realizing that I didn’t want that type of passive sleuthing to be available within my digital sphere, I decided to go through and remove all 677 comments on my MySpace profile<\/a> that have accumulated over the last 5 years. <\/p>\n

Yet those digital memories are not gone forever, rather, I went through and saved the HTML of every page of comments. I think I might illegally post them to an unlinked folder on this website for safe keeping. Reading over all them was quite cathartic to say the least— old friends who I don’t see anymore, ex-girlfriends, memories of past parties, and my favorite, the lexical migration from Friendster’s testimonials to inane discussions to people’s e-flyers. All I can say is that MySpace is one of the finest data mining operations on the internet and I’m happy there is now a little less data to be mined.<\/p>\n

For the last 7 months I’ve been working on a digital art project related to some ambiguous content I’ve found on MySpace. I have over 100 different images I am going to collage together. Its going to take awhile, but I think the result will be a striking indictment on MySpace’s decline in popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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